I'm frustrated by the usual questions of: how much of this is true? What's still unknown? How does the journalist have access to all of these memos and documents anyway? And if this all is true, how can anyone remain on the pro-government side of the fray without implicitly sanctioning illegal torture/abuse?

Furthermore, how different is this from other conflicts? Why isn't it also front-page news that various governments that the U.S. supports in South America and elsewhere are fascist? What can I believe, anyway?

Interesting as the above article is, there's no way for me to evaluate the veracity of the claims in it. The most frustrating thing about this is that there is an objective truth. One version of all that I've been reading about actually did happen. That makes it so much more frustrating than arguing about religion, ethics, or other matters of opinion. History seems like it should be scientific, but it isn't replicable.